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  • 1988 Dizzy Gillespie

  • 1989 Maynard Ferguson,Tal Farlow, Kenny Davern

  • 1990 Lew Soloff

  • 1991 Clark Terry, Slide Hampton

  • 1992 Phil Woods

  • 1993/1995 Louis Bellson

  • 1994 Arturo Sandoval

  • 1995 Byron Stripling

  • 1996 Allen Vizzutti, Denis DiBlasio

  • 1997 David Garibaldi

  • 1998 Bill Watrous

  • 1999 Bobby Shew

  • 2000 Jeff Jarvis

  • 2001 Mike Smith

  • 2002 Steve Turri

  • 2003 Butch Miles

  • 2004 Bob Mintzer

  • 2005 Claudio Roditi

  • 2006 Randy Brecker

  • 2007 Dave Weckl

  • 2008 Carl Saunders

  • 2009 Wayne Bergeron

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    The Lakewood Jazz Ensemble

    This is one of the premier big bands on the east coast. Comprised of 20 professional musicians from NY, NJ, MD, and Pa. They have performed and recorded with jazz artists Maynard Ferguson, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, David Garibaldi, Phil Woods, Al Cohn, Lew Tabackin, Urbie Green, Bill Watrous, Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval, Allen Vizutti , Bobby Shew, Byron Stripling, Lew Soloff, Tal Farlow, Mike Smith, Kenny Davern, Bob Mintzer, Claudio Roditi and Red Rodney, Dave Weckl, Carl Saunders and Wayne Bergeron.

     


    Watch, Listen, Enjoy and Learn about Jazz from the hundreds of Music Spectacular audio and video clips below!


     

    Music Spectacular Jazz Festival

    0ver 1,000 elementary, middle and high school students from New Jersey and Pennsylvania will converged on the OceanFirst Theater for a music assembly about jazz with a world famous jazz artist and the Lakewood Jazz Ensemble.  The students will be guests of the Lakewood Jazz Ensemble for the annual 11 hour Music Spectacular Jazz Festival.  Previous performances have featured Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lew Soloff, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Louis Bellson, Arturo Sandoval, Byron Stripling, Allen Vizzutti, David Garibaldi, Bill Watrous, Bobby Shew, Steve Turre and Butch Miles, Bob Mintzer, Claudio Roditi and Dave Weckl.  Students are bussed from tri-state high schools representing an audience that will fill every seat of the state of the art OceanFirst Theater.

                The Lakewood Jazz Ensemble is a community arts program sponsored by the Township of Lakewood. Comprised of twenty outstanding musicians, the band rehearses and performs regularly under the expert direction of Director, Wilbur Wittemann. Following a 10:30 a.m. performance, high school jazz bands from area schools will perform for clinics and adjudication.  All Stars student musicians selected from each of the bands will perform as the opening act of the 7:30 p.m. show. 

    The 2009 Featured Guest Artist was:

    WAYNE BERGERON!

    http://www.waynebergeron.com/

     


    11 HOURS OF BIG BAND JAZZ WITH ONE THE WORLDS GREATEST TRUMPET PLAYERS!

     


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